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Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by the
American Astronomical SocietyThe American Astronomical Society is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The basic objective of the AAS is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science...
to a young (less than age 36)
astronomerAn astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars, and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research.
Pierce Prize winners:
- 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg
- 1975 Eric Becklin
Eric E. Becklin is an American astrophysicist, best known for his pioneering study of infra-red sources at the center of our galaxy....
- 1976 James Roger Angel
- 1977 Donald N.B. Hall
- 1978 James M. Moran, Jr.
- 1979 D. Harper
- 1980 Jack Baldwin
Sir Jack E. Baldwin, FRS is a former Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and the former head of the organic chemistry department of that university....
- 1981 Bruce Margon
- 1982 Marc Davis
- 1983 Alan Dressler
- 1984 Marc Aaronson
Marc Aaronson was an American astronomer.-Education:Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BSc in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 at Harvard University with a dissertation on the near-infrared aperture photometry of galaxies...
, Jeremy R. Mould
- 1985 Richard G. Kron
- 1986 Reinhard Genzel
Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist.-Life:Genzel studied physics at the University of Bonn and did his PhD in 1978 at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...
- 1987 Donald E. Winget
- 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas
- 1989 Harriet L. Dinerstein
- 1990 Kristen Sellgren
- 1991 Kenneth G. Libbrecht
Kenneth Libbrecht is a professor of physics at Caltech.Libbrecht was originally trained as a solar astronomer, studying under Robert Dicke at Princeton and receiving his PhD in 1984. However, much of his recent research has focused on the properties of ice crystals, particularly the structure of...
- 1992 Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Vladimir Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of...
- 1993 Arlin P.S. Crotts
- 1994 No award
- 1995 Andrew McWilliam
- 1996 Michael Strauss
- 1997 Alyssa A. Goodman
Alyssa Ann Goodman is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing. Goodman and her research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,...
- 1998 Andrea Ghez
Andrea Mia Ghez is an astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1992...
- 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky
- 2000 Kirpal Nandra
Kirpal "Paul" Nandra is Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London. He is noted as a member of the X-ray group and studies the astrophysics of extreme environments, specifically those close to black holes in active galactic nuclei. He has written or...
- 2001 Kenneth R. Sembach
- 2002 Amy Barger
Dr. Amy Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. She also worked with others on discoveries concerning...
- 2003 Xiaohui Fan
- 2004 Niel Brandt
William Nielsen Brandt is a professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University...
- 2005 Andrew Blain
- 2006 Bryan Gaensler
Bryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :...
- 2007 "No award"
- 2008 Lisa Kewley
Lisa Kewley is a Hubble Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. Her area of interest is galaxy evolution. She received the 2005 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy for her studies of oxygen in galaxies....